National Guard Bureau, Contracting Support Office, 5109 Leesburg Pike Skyline VI, Suite 401B Falls Church, VA 22041-3201

70 -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR HOME INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS AT SELECTED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD MAJOR TRAINING SITES SOL CBD&&&-9703-0001 POC 1LT Eric Obergfell, (703) 681-0601, EMail: eobergfe@ngb-emh2.army.mil The National Guard Bureau seeks planning and feasibility information from potential sources for anticipated acquisition of Home Station Instrumentation systems at various Army National Guard Regional training sites. HSI is the Army's term used for Instrumented Ranges at local Army training sites/posts;for the ARNG, this would be selected ARNG major training sites. The Preliminary plans call for a two phase program: Phase I includes development of a Home Station Instrumention (HSI) Range Strategy which recommends site selection and capability. Phase II will identify instrument systems for heavy and light ARNG combat and combat support forces. General HSI requirements include the following: a) HSI hardware suitable for use at ARNG training Sites. Hardware must support ARNG Combat and Combat Support Training of either Heavy or Light forces and will, as a minimum, include instrumented data processing, exercise data display, and after action review. b) HSI should consider support of Force-on-Force/ Force on Target, and/or live fire training events (Bradley/Tank Tables VIII & XII). Unit size will be Platoon up to and including Company Team with growth /usr2/k11/hsi Doc 1 Pg 1 Ln 1 Pos 5 The National Guard Bureau seeks planning and feasibility information from potential sources for anticipated acquisition of Home Station Instrumentation systems at various Army National Guard Regional training sites. HSI is the Army's term used for Instrumented Ranges at local Army training sites/posts;for the ARNG, this would be selected ARNG major training sites. The Preliminary plans call for a two phase program: Phase I includes development of a Home Station Instrumention (HSI) Range Strategy which recommends site selection and capability. Phase II will identify instrument systems for heavy and light ARNG combat and combat support forces. General HSI requirements include the following: a) HSI hardware suitable for use at ARNG training Sites. Hardware must support ARNG Combat and Combat Support Training of either Heavy or Light forces and will, as a minimum, include instrumented data processing, exercise data display, and after action review. b) HSI should consider support of Force-on-Force/ Force on Target, and/or live fire training events (Bradley/Tank Tables VIII & XII). Unit size will be Platoon up to and including Company Team with growth /usr2/k11/hsi Doc 1 Pg 1 Ln 1 Pos 5 Doc 1 Pg 2 Ln 33 Pos 5 The National Guard Bureau seeks planning and feasibility information from potential sources for anticipated acquisition of Home Station Instrumentation systems at various Army National Guard Regional training sites. HSI is the Army's term used for Instrumented Ranges at local Army training sites/posts;for the ARNG, this would be selected ARNG major training sites. The Preliminary plans call for a two phase program: Phase I includes development of a Home Station Instrumention (HSI) Range Strategy which recommends site selection and capability. Phase II will identify instrument systems for heavy and light ARNG combat and combat support forces. General HSI requirements include the following: a) HSI hardware suitable for use at ARNG training Sites. Hardware must support ARNG Combat and Combat Support Training of either Heavy or Light forces and will, as a minimum, include instrumented data processing, exercise data display, and after action review. b) HSI should consider support of Force-on-Force/ Force on Target, and/or live fire training events (Bradley/Tank Tables VIII & XII). Unit size will be Platoon up to and including Company Team with growth options to Battalion Task Force level. c) HSI consideration should include interoperability with other simulator /simulation training systems which may be integrated into a full STOW environment. (STOW -- Synthetic Theatre of War, for purposes of this study, is defined as an optimum live, constructive and virtual environment for training of ARNG combat and combat support forces.) d) HSI should be DIS compliant and be transitional to HLA (High Level Architecture) in the future. e) HSI should build on and exploit existing infrastructure. f) HSI site should also consider other compatible training event potential such as co-located MOBA (Military Operations in a built up area) site and Simulation Center facility. g) HSI should be open and flexible system(s) architecture to allow concurrent upgrades and product improvement. All responsible sources for the contemplated Phase II are invited to send NGB-AQC-S descriptive literature on technical, cost, and schedule estimates to fill the HSI requirements. Potential sources are also invited to comment on program risk/realism, concerns, and related issues to include answers to the following questions: Do any potential sources have an existing training system that could serve as an HSI model? Please identify specific technical, cost, and schedule factors that drive program risk. -- - How can the training capabilities and acquisition requirements be tailored and streamlined to reduce cost, schedule, and technical risks? Please address an implementation schedule or fielding plan for HSI configuration. Consider site survey, operational requirements document, systems engineering effort, site development, fielding, and training validation phases. Please discuss alternatives for open architecture and growth capability that allow cost effective progressive improvements on the initially fielded system. Individual responses to this request for information that contain company proprietary information must be marked in accordance with FAR 52.215-12. Such proprietary information will not be released outside the government (within the government is defined to include evaluation on a "need to know" basis by participating technical and management assistance contractors under government contract who have signed appropriate non-disclosure and non-conflict of interest certificates). The government may revise its acquisition strategy and solicitation requirements based on industry responses. Responses are due not later than 21 days after date of publication of this notice. Submit responses in writing to 1LT Eric Obergfell, Contract Specialist, NGB-AQC-S, Skyline VI, Suite 401B, 5109 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3201. Telephone or telefax responses will not be accepted. This notice does not obligate the government to issue RFP's or award contracts for subject HSI efforts. (0070)

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